Ethnic differences in social network help-seeking strategies among Latino and Euro-Aamerican dementia caregivers.
Ethnic differences in social network help-seeking strategies among Latino and Euro-Aamerican dementia caregivers.
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拉丁裔和欧美痴呆症护理人员社交网络寻求帮助策略的种族差异。
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10.1080/13607860410001725045
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2004
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Barrio,C
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Valle,R;Yamada,AM;Barrio,C
这项研究探讨了为患有痴呆症的老年人提供家庭护理援助的欧美和拉丁裔护理人员的寻求帮助行为。我们对 89 对护理人员-护理接受者（39 名拉丁裔和 50 名欧美裔）的社区样本进行了访谈。进行描述性、双变量和多变量分析，以检查使用非正式社交网络帮助完成护理任务的种族差异。还考虑了可能影响寻求帮助行为的看护者经历，例如支持网络的可用性、对所获得支持的满意度以及看护者的痛苦。拉丁裔护理人员报告的寻求帮助的情况比欧美护理人员少。总体而言，种族因素对寻求帮助行为的差异造成了 16% 的影响。即使在调整了社会经济变量之后，种族在大多数寻求帮助特征的变化中也占了很大一部分。在多变量模型中，种族对寻求帮助的影响持续存在，而其他可能的预测因素的影响却没有。社交网络的规模可能并不等同于照顾者寻求支持。同样，拉丁裔护理人员的痛苦程度较高并没有导致寻求帮助行为的增加。仍然需要确定哪些其他因素可能导致护理人员使用非正式支持的文化差异。
This research explores the help-seeking behavior of Euro-American and Latino caregivers who provide homecare assistance to an older adult with dementia. A community sample of 89 caregiver-care recipient pairs (39 Latino and 50 Euro-American) was interviewed. Descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses were conducted to examine ethnic differences in use of an informal social network for help with caregiving tasks. Caregiver experiences that may impact help-seeking behaviors such as perceived availability of support network, satisfaction with support received and caregiver distress were also considered. Latino caregivers reported less help-seeking than did the Euro-American caregivers. Overall, ethnicity accounted for 16% of the variation in help-seeking behaviors. Ethnicity accounted for a significant portion of the variation in most of the help-seeking characteristics examined even after adjusting for socioeconomic variables. In the multivariate model, the effects of ethnicity on help-seeking persisted, while the effects of other likely predictors did not. The size of social network may not be synonymous with the seeking of support by caregivers. Likewise, higher levels of distress among Latino caregivers did not result in increased help-seeking behaviors. There remains a need to identity what other factors may contribute to the cultural variability in caregivers’ use of informal support.